Silvia Smith

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Silvia Joy Smith (born December 22, 1939 in Burnie, Tasmania) is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996 and a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1997 to 2003.

She was an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996, representing the electorate of Bass. She was defeated by Liberal candidate Warwick Smith. as part of the landslide that swept the Keating government from office that year.

In 1997, she ran for and was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council electorate of Windermere as an Independent Labor candidate. She served for one six-year term before being defeated by the then Mayor of Launceston, conservative independent Ivan Dean, at the 2003 periodic elections.

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• Silvia Smith, Parliamentary Library

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Warwick Smith	Member for Bass 1993–1996	Succeeded by Warwick Smith